7.8/10387 votes#1 - Now What?
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2003
Carter returns from Africa, going straight to Abby's bedside. Her response to seeing him is to ask for her key back. She is very chilly towards him all day until new med student Neela Rasgotra answers a phone call for Carter. The message: Luka is dead. Carter decides to go back to the Congo to bring the body back. Neela has a tough first day in the ER, earning Chen's ire after Pratt flirts with her. Gallant, now a full-fledged doctor, helps to show her the ropes.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: John Wells
8.3/10590 votes#2 - The Lost
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2003
John Carter returns to the Congo to retrieve Luka Kovac's body. He finds however that the area where was killed is still too dangerous to enter. He and Gillian finally manage to hitch a ride with a Red Cross worker, Debbie, who is going to the area. In flashbacks, we learn how Kovac and his fellow aid workers were taken prisoner by rebel troops. They are shot, one at a time, until only Luka is left. Amid the destruction of the eastern Congo, we learn his fate. Carter also makes a fateful decision.
Director: Christopher Chulack, John Wells
Writer: John Wells
7.9/10400 votes#3 - Dear Abby
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2003
Luka Kovac arrives safely at County General and is hospitalized for treatment. His friend Gillian delivers John Carter's letter to Abby.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: R. Scott Gemmill
7.6/10357 votes#4 - Shifts Happen
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/2003
Confident second-year resident Pratt wants to prove his abilities when he works the graveyard shift (11 p.m. to 7 a.m.), but his heroics sometimes backfire. Pratt shows contempt for a man, Ed Gamble, who presents no symptoms of disease but temporarily loses his speech.
Director: Julie Hébert
Writer: Dee Johnson
8.0/10378 votes#5 - Out of Africa
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2003
Ben Hollander is a distraught architect whose degenerating eyesight causes him despondent while a spirited new nurse, Samantha Taggart joins the staff. Elsewhere, disaster strikes when the doctors suspect a mother is abusing her child while Dr. Corday learns something shocking about the charismatic Dr. Dorset, and Dr. Archie Morris is overwhelmed by the chaos and grisly conditions of life in the E.R.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: David Zabel
7.6/10351 votes#6 - The Greater Good
Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2003
Pratt and Kovac clash over a miscarriage-prone young woman, Denny, who arrives to deliver a premature baby. Pratt wants to make heroic efforts to save the unborn child, while Kovac is adamantly against spending vast amounts of money to keep the forever sickly baby alive.
Director: N/A
Writer: R. Scott Gemmill
7.9/10359 votes#7 - Death and Taxes
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2003
To everyone's amazement, Lewis makes a date to share a home-cooked dinner with the elderly Ben Hollander, her depressed patient who is going blind.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Dee Johnson
8.6/10569 votes#8 - Freefall
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/2003
On Thanksgiving Day, a helicopter crash outside the ER leaves several injured, and kills Dr. Romano. Alex tries to bring Sam and Luka together.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Joe Sachs
7.5/10344 votes#9 - Missing
Season 10 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/2003
Neela helps treat two Amish teens who were in a car crash. Sam argues with Dr. Kovac when he pays too much attention to her son.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: David Zabel
7.6/10389 votes#10 - Makemba
Season 10 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/2003
Dr. Carter celebrates Christmas at a clinic in the Congo dealing with low supplies and anti-Americanism, but in the meantime, falling for an AIDS worker named Makemba.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: John Wells
7.5/10340 votes#11 - Touch and Go
Season 10 Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/2004
Carter returns to County General to hearty welcomes. Although Abby is shocked to learn that Carter's beautiful African girlfriend, Kem, is already pregnant with Carter's child, Abby has moved on with her life as well, going back to medical school.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mark Morocco
8.1/10383 votes#12 - NICU
Season 10 Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/2004
Abby and Neela are assigned to a month-long rotation in the neonatal intensive care unit where they experience emotional roller coasters while caring for the sick infants.
Director: Laura Innes
Writer: Lisa Zwerling
7.6/10357 votes#13 - Get Carter
Season 10 Episode 13 - Aired 2/5/2004
Dr. Carter's girlfriend makes an impression as she observes ER operations. Dr. Gallant is almost shot during a domestic incident. Dr. Weaver dedicates a center to the memory of Dr. Romano.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: R. Scott Gemmill
7.7/10342 votes#14 - Impulse Control
Season 10 Episode 14 - Aired 2/12/2004
Sam treats an abused, pregnant teen. Dr. Carter introduces African girlfriend Makemba to wintertime. ER chaos shocks a risk-assessment expert. Dr. Pratt and Abby restrain a man who has tuberculosis.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Yahlin Chang
7.7/10333 votes#15 - Blood Relations
Season 10 Episode 15 - Aired 2/19/2004
Carter misses his pregnant girlfriend who has returned to Africa. A family of four is rushed to the emergency room after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning from their faulty furnace--forcing the claustrophobic Neela to accompany a newborn baby into an extremely uncomfortable hyperbaric chamber.
Director: Nelson McCormick
Writer: Dee Johnson
7.9/10373 votes#16 - Forgive and Forget
Season 10 Episode 16 - Aired 2/26/2004
Morris streets a patient without getting a psych consult, and the guy steals a tank and heads for County. Gillian is visiting Luka, and Sam's not happy about it. Luka and Sam make up by the end of the day though. A 13-year-old boy has chlamydia. Frank has a heart attack. Corday plays the dating game, going out with two men.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Bruce Miller
7.7/10335 votes#17 - The Student
Season 10 Episode 17 - Aired 4/1/2004
Carter sticks up for Neela when the other attendings doubt her future in the ER. Neela caves to the pressure and accidentally gives a patient the wrong medication. Gallant takes the blame for her though. Sam and Luka try to plan Alex's birthday party. Frank visits on his way to therapy. Chen's home nurse quits after her dad behaves poorly.
Director: Paul McCrane
Writer: David Zabel
8.0/10442 votes#18 - Where There's Smoke
Season 10 Episode 18 - Aired 4/8/2004
Weaver rushes to the aid of her female life partner, Sandy Lopez, when the firefighter is severely injured while working and must now battle for her life. Frightened Weaver whispers hope to Sandy by reminding the victim of their newborn child.
Director: Tawnia McKiernan
Writer: Jacy Young
7.5/10338 votes#19 - Just a Touch
Season 10 Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/2004
Pratt struggles to diagnose a woman who suffers mysterious chronic seizures. An attractive woman, Campbell, informally accuses flirtatious Pratt of sexual harassment. Abby ponders how to get her contentious patients' attention during her psychiatric department rotation.
Director: N/A
Writer: R. Scott Gemmill
7.8/10336 votes#20 - Abby Normal
Season 10 Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/2004
A panic-stricken Weaver is ordered to give her son to the Lopez family. Carter greets the returning Kem, but their meeting with his father, Jack, gets tense after Carter announces plans for his grandmother's estate.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: David Zabel
8.3/10425 votes#21 - Midnight
Season 10 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/2004
Carter takes Kem to the hospital to check on their baby since it's not kicking anymore.
Director: Julie Hébert
Writer: John Wells
7.9/10348 votes#22 - Drive
Season 10 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/2004
Kovacs stops to help a woman and her son whose car broke down. Steve is getting close to Alex, and Sam panics. Abby is looking for her letter whether to see she passed her boards. Pratt shows off his new Chrysler. Elgin tries to build a connection between him and Pratt. Jing-Mei might be battered by her senile father.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Dee Johnson
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Genre:Drama
Network:NBC
Season 10 Ratings Summary
"Now What?" is the best rated episode of "ER" season 10. It scored 7.8/10 based on 387 votes. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan and written by John Wells, it aired on 9/25/2003. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Lost".